The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... less obscure in one or two places . The order of the two last members is also changed , and I believe for the better . This change was made on the suggestion of a very learned person , to the partiality of whose friendship I owe much ...
... less obscure in one or two places . The order of the two last members is also changed , and I believe for the better . This change was made on the suggestion of a very learned person , to the partiality of whose friendship I owe much ...
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... less , that they were holding out to us a superior pattern of legal liberty , which we might substitute in the place of our old , and , as they described it , superannuated , constitution . He meant to demonstrate , that the French ...
... less , that they were holding out to us a superior pattern of legal liberty , which we might substitute in the place of our old , and , as they described it , superannuated , constitution . He meant to demonstrate , that the French ...
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... less sensible to a long - possessed benefit , from the very circumstance that it is become habitual . Specious , untried , ambiguous prospects of new advantage , recommend themselves to the spirit of adventure , which more or less ...
... less sensible to a long - possessed benefit , from the very circumstance that it is become habitual . Specious , untried , ambiguous prospects of new advantage , recommend themselves to the spirit of adventure , which more or less ...
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... less ; that , under the system of policy which was then pur- sued , the Americans could have no sort of security for their laws or liberties , or for any part of them ; and that the very circumstance of our freedom would have augmented ...
... less ; that , under the system of policy which was then pur- sued , the Americans could have no sort of security for their laws or liberties , or for any part of them ; and that the very circumstance of our freedom would have augmented ...
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... less evil than disturbing the whole government ; that law must needs be understood to forbid the doing or saying anything to disturb the government ; the rather because the obeying that law cannot be pretended to be against nature : and ...
... less evil than disturbing the whole government ; that law must needs be understood to forbid the doing or saying anything to disturb the government ; the rather because the obeying that law cannot be pretended to be against nature : and ...
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Page 541 - History of the House of Austria. From the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rhodolph of Hapsburgh to the Death of Leopold II., 1218-1792.
Page 344 - It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 157 - ... flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest fled to the walled cities ; but escaping from fire, sword and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine.
Page 158 - For eighteen months without intermission this destruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates of Tanjore ; and so completely did these masters in their art, Hyder Ali and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever. One...